Summary
"This study is about change. Not change to an ordinary institution, but rather the transformation of the world's most famous police force, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). The force, formed in 1873, found its very existence threatened at the end of the First World War. The Mounties, however, had already begun the process of transforming themselves. During the war, the Mounted Police began security intelligence operations in Alberta and Saskatchewan. By the start of the Second World War, the RCMP's powerful post as Canada's national police and security force was without challengers."--Page ii.